Sudan: Video Footage Shows Extreme Violence, Abuse

International Investigation Needed

(Nairobi, February 11,
2019) – Human Rights Watch released a videoon February 11, 2019 that shows government
forces’ extreme violence and shocking abuses against protesters during weeks of
largely peaceful protests across the country. The United Nations Human Rights
Council should urgently respond to the human rights crisis in Sudan at its March session and
ensure an independent investigation into the violations committed since the
start of protests in December 2018.

Video
footage, verified by Human Rights Watch, shows security forces driving around
in armed vehicles, shooting bullets and teargas at unarmed protesters, and rounding
up and brutally beating protesters and bystanders with sticks and gun butts. The
footage also shows gruesome, bloody injuries from gunshots; evidence of harsh
beatings and torture; and the effects of raids by security forces on hospitals,
filling emergency rooms with teargas and hindering medical care.